The inspection season is approaching and there are requirements that members should be aware of prior to the inspection. These changes were adopted at the March 2006 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia by the Board of Trustees.

1. Owners exhibiting horses in ATA Inspections are required to:

   • Be Active Members of the American Trakehner Association

   • Have a completed and signed the Application for Inspection on each horse.

   • Paid all required inspection fees in advance of the inspection.

2. All horses except foals at side and weanlings applying for inspection are required to have registration certificates with the appropriate breeding registry. Weanlings require at least a pending application for registration.

   • Trakehners, Anglo Trakehners and Arab Trakehner horses are required to be registered with the American Trakehner Association.

   • Thoroughbred horses are required to be registered with the Jockey Club.

   • Purebred Arabian horses are required to be registered with either The Arabian Horse Registry of America, the Canadian Arabian Horse Registry or the World Arabian Organization.

   • Anglo-Arabian horses are required to be registered with either The International Arabian Horse Association, or the Canadian Partbred-Arabian Registry.

   • Shagya-Arabian or Anglo-Shagya horses are required to be registered in a stud book member of the International Shagy-Araber Gesellschaft e.V. or the Internationale Purebred Shagya-Arab Society

3. Thoroughbred and Arabian horse owners are required to submit along with application, a complete 4 generation pedigree plus a racing record report indicating the horse’s:

   • Racing record report showing number of starts, placing and total earnings or

   • Racing record report from same organization documenting a horse did not race.

   • These reports are available on-line at www.equibase.com for Thoroughbreds or www.arabdatasource.com for Arabians

4. A negative Coggins test plus a veterinary health certificate for each horse is required to be provided to the host at each inspection site and is to accompany each horse indicating they show no sign of infectious diseases to help protect the horses of fellow members. The ONLY exception to this requirement is a state where intra-state transportation does NOT require a negative Coggins test.

5. Owners of stallions applying for inspection are required to obtain veterinary examinations and radiographs (X-rays) of the stallion in advance of the inspection. See ATA website for protocol and details under Stallion Inspection Forms.

6. Minimum approval scores were changed in 2006.

Rationale for changes:

• Brings Trakehner stallion minimum approval scores are closer to German Verband minimums in consideration of the Verband acceptance program of ATA approved stallions from 2005 onward (approval requires 58 pts. for ATA vs. 60 pts. for Germany), and requires Thoroughbred and Arabian stallions to be better than the minimum Trakehner stallion approval score.

• There is no change in the minimum score for OSB Trakehner mares

• The number of Thoroughbred and Arabian and half blood mares approved during the eight years of mandatory inspections for the Preliminary Stud Book / Pilot Program equaled the number of fullblood Trakehner mares approved for the Official Stud Book resulting in a significant impact on the genetics of the breeding population.

• Average approval scores during the period for PSB xx and ox mares were significantly lower than the average approval score for OSB Trakehner mares. The average approval score for PSB xx and ox mares was 46.8 vs. 49.2 for OSB Trakehner mares.

• Approved Thoroughbred and Arabian horses going forward are intended to be improvers to the quality of the breed and therefore should be above the current breed average score for Trakehner mares. Therefore; minimum approval scores for Thoroughbred and Arabian mares are now at least equal to the breed average of OSB mare approval scores so as to increase the probability of improving the breed in the future .